import yaml import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse from lxml import etree import lxml.html import lxml.html.soupparser class membersParliamentCrawler(object): def __init__(self, configFile): with open(configFile, "r") as stream: try: self.config = yaml.safe_load(stream) except yaml.YAMLError as exc: print(exc) # input list of countries in form of ['nicaragua', 'honduras', .. , 'mexico'] def downloadMemberListPagesOfCountries(self, listOfCountries): # download only html pages of the countries specified in input for country in listOfCountries: for key in self.config: if key in listOfCountries: try: memberList = self.config.get(key).get('memberList') except: print("There is a problem with the entry memberList in the config.yaml") try: memberListLink = memberList.get('link') except: print("No memberListLink defined in config.yaml") print(memberListLink) # download the html page of the List of Members response = urllib.request.urlopen(memberListLink) webContent = response.read().decode('UTF-8') # save interim results to files f = open('pages/' + key +'MemberList.html', 'w+') f.write(webContent) f.close def parseMemberData2dictionary(self, listOfCountries): for country in listOfCountries: try: #use soupparser to handle broken html tree = lxml.html.soupparser.parse('pages/' + country + 'MemberList.html') #for e in tree.iter(): # print(e.tag) # for e in tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr'): # # #print(etree.tostring(e).decode()) dictionaryMemberList = {} for n in range(len(tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr'))): name = tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr[' + str(n) + ']//td//a//text()') link = tree.xpath('//html//body//form//table//tr//td//table//tr[' + str(n) + ']//td//a//@href') if len(name) > 0: dictionaryMemberList[name[0]] = {} dictionaryMemberList[name[0]]['name'] = name[0] dictionaryMemberList[name[0]]['link'] = link[0] except Exception as e: print('parsing the html did not work. Possibly you first have to downloadMemberListPagesOfCountries(). The original error message is:', e) f = open('output/' + country +'MemberList.txt', 'w+') f.write(str(dictionaryMemberList)) f.close